Mechanism to configure views with opentelemetry-instrument

[aabmass]

Views are intended to be the main configuration mechanism for metrics instrumentation. For example, dropping a metric or metrics from a given instrumentation. We need a mechanism to specify view configuration with the opentelemetry-instrument auto instrumentation agent. Concerns:

• There has been a lot of community discussion around configuration. If we do implement something, there may be a formal spec later on.
• Maybe check what java agent is doing here

One alternative would be identifying the major use cases and adding simple config flags which we convert to views for auto instrumentation.

[srikanthccv]

For the curious people, the ongoing work is here https://github.com/MrAlias/otel-schema/

[bjrara]

Hi team, is there any update on this feature?

I have one use case that needs to configure views in the auto-instrumentation SDK, however, it seems there's no existing mechanism to configure them through files. See https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/issues/2861.

[lzchen]

@bjrara

No update as of today.